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Brain candy for Happy MutantsFri, 18 Aug 2017 01:09:34 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.187954168High school student suing Amazon over book-deletions which rendered his study-notes uselesshttp://boingboing.net/2009/07/30/high-school-student-1.html
http://boingboing.net/2009/07/30/high-school-student-1.html#commentsThu, 30 Jul 2009 16:21:01 +0000Nineteen Eighty-Four, because in so doing, they messed the annotations he'd created to the text for class (the annotations say things like "remember this paragraph for class" but the paragraph in question has been deleted). The case is intended to become a class-action on behalf of other Kindle owners whose annotations were deletedrendered useless by Amazon when it improperly deleted an infringing copy of the Orwell book from Kindles. Nothing in Amazon's EULA or US copyright law gives them permission to delete books off your Kindle, so this sounds like a plausible suit to me.

]]>Nineteen Eighty-Four, because in so doing, they messed the annotations he'd created to the text for class (the annotations say things like "remember this paragraph for class" but the paragraph in question has been deleted). The case is intended to become a class-action on behalf of other Kindle owners whose annotations were deletedrendered useless by Amazon when it improperly deleted an infringing copy of the Orwell book from Kindles. Nothing in Amazon's EULA or US copyright law gives them permission to delete books off your Kindle, so this sounds like a plausible suit to me.